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by kolbe 8y ago
Most of my tickets have been from timed and metered parking. That is, I had to pay, and I wasn't allowed to pay for longer than X continuous hours.
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by kolbe 8y ago
The problem is that chalk is placed at a certain angle and falls off easily, which can indicate whether a car has moved or not. Photographs would largely only show that a car is in the same place it was in before, not whether it had left an
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by kolbe 8y ago
The problem with that, like so many laws, is that you have to prove motive for the law to work. I'm sure the previous commenter is not so naive as to think companies give a formal, written demotion stating that their EEO activity was t
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by kolbe 8y ago
They do, and it's arguably a big problem, since they aren't trained to make good managerial or investment decisions--just following a formula. And while no accusations have been laid directly, the economic consequences of the vote
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by kolbe 8y ago
Then don't buy the S&P 500. There are myriad investment options in this world.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm sure a gigantic portion of Twitter's operating costs are the once necessary to monetize their users. I have a feeling the product that is for the users would be much closer to Wikipedia-level costs.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Blockbuster is irrelevant. They had to pay for real estate and retail employees, and had a much better selection. Streaming is a completely different business. Netflix disks are a better comp. They cost the same as streaming does and while
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by kolbe 8y ago
Nonprofit? A service that does what you likely desire would cost in the eight digits a year to provide for the whole world.
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by kolbe 8y ago
A 500 billion dollar corporation will always be able to beat nonprofits on usability. The question you should ask yourself is whether the marginal difference in usability makes up for all the negative consequences of being a Facebook user.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I have a hard time believing Taleb can keep any friends. He thinks everyone is an idiot, and doesn't have any reservation about telling them.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Corporations are just a reflection of their owners/management. There are some of them in the hands of good people (e.g. Patagonia). It's hard for them not to become profit-maximizers, but not necessary.
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by kolbe 8y ago
It's not exactly an easy thing to fix. Between the bystander effect of having millions of shareholders, and the mere consequence of markets allocating assets to people who can extract the most amount of value from them, I don't kn
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Chicago’s Towing Program Is Broken(interactive.wbez.org)
2 points by kolbe 8y ago|0 comments
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by kolbe 8y ago
What are some economics of this? I figure each satellite costs at least $100mm to build/deploy. I know Amazon has access to a lot of capital, but $300b is too much even for them.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Other than the fact that it's strong evidence that Norway doesn't give a shit about leveling your theoretical playing field in the climate change and carbon emissions game.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Norway (population 5.3 million) is the 14th largest exporter of crude oil in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_expor...
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'd like to add to this that regulatory capture isn't some benign cancer. I read a really good piece on the history of the Venezuelan economy recently, and a significant factor in their failure as a liberal state and decline into
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Second ghostly galaxy without dark matter discovered, first confirmed(astronomy.com)
5 points by kolbe 8y ago|0 comments
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by kolbe 8y ago
Outline isn't working for me. Anyone know if the WSJ did something to thwart them?
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by kolbe 8y ago
When you're talking about valuing their shares, yes, it does tell the whole story. They cannot transfer their extra voting rights, so if they're ever interested in monetizing their investment, they have to convert to limited votin
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by kolbe 8y ago
If the Lyft founders are entering the IPO with about 3.5% each, then I don't think it's crazy for 10th engineers these days to have less than a basis point.
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by kolbe 8y ago
These cost more than I paid for the iPhone SE that I'd be connecting them to.
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by kolbe 8y ago
YC looks a lot more in an application than where you went to school. I doubt getting into Stanford even gives you a 20% chance of being admitted to a YC class.
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by kolbe 8y ago
One problem with this theory is that life continues past age 17/18. As far as I've been able to tell, the difference between a typical MIT admit and a typical UMass kid is about two years of hard work. By age 20, many gunners from
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by kolbe 8y ago
You're not wrong, but many other industries behave similarly. I think of FAANG's massive A/B testing the same way: constantly probe to find legal ways to get people addicted to their content or to surreptitiously convince the
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by kolbe 8y ago
Blaming an entire community for individual actions is dangerous. Sometimes it is called for, but first I'd like to see a real honest analysis about why these communities are responsible for a significantly greater number of homicides t
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by kolbe 8y ago
Courts do not interpret that as strictly as you think. If they did, every S&P 500 company would be in violation.
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by kolbe 8y ago
They charge everyone the same toll, though. And why should it change just because Apple introduced a competitor? Apple charges Spotify the same before and after they launched Apple Music.
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by kolbe 8y ago
https://outline.com/tWd8Z4
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by kolbe 8y ago
I cannot think of a single employed person that I know for whom turning down a $1000 1000:1 payoff for 10:1 odds is rational. Maybe a recovering gambling addict who would be triggered by this action, but that's about it. Turning down a

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